You know, it’s hard to believe this was all incompetence. Is anyone working for more than minimum wage that indifferent to their job?
In the days before Hurricane Katrina hit land, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, FEMA Director Michael Brown and other top Homeland Security officials received e-mails on their blackberries warning that Katrina posed a dire threat to New Orleans and other areas. Yet one FEMA official tells NPR little was done.
Leo Bosner, an emergency management specialist at FEMA headquarters in Washington, D.C., is in charge of the unit that alerts officials of impending crises and manages the response. As early as Friday, Aug. 26, Bosner knew that Katrina could turn into a major emergency.
In daily e-mails — known as National Situation Updates — sent to Chertoff, Brown and others in the days before Katrina made landfall in the Gulf Coast, Bosner warned of its growing strength — and of the particular danger the hurricane posed to New Orleans, much of which lies below sea level.
But Bosner says FEMA failed to organize the massive mobilization of National Guard troops and evacuation buses needed for a quick and effective relief response when Katrina struck. He says he and his colleagues at FEMA’s D.C. headquarters were shocked by the lack of response.
As Claude Raines would say, I am shocked — SHOCKED — by the lack of response.
As Claude Raines would say, I am shocked — SHOCKED — by the lack of response.
I will also be shocked by the lack of MSM coverage of this event, and the Republican self-investigation of the problem
I’ve seen this happen in business…some people are so out of their league, that they just imagine that someone else is going to do the work for them. The concept that they are the one’s in charge just doesn’t sink in, so they really do think it’s someone else’s responsibility.
Funny how people who would get irked with a slow fast food restraunt worker are more that willing to tolerate the performance of the neo-crowd.
Most min. wage people have to pay MORE attention otherwise their job would be “histoire” to quote David Gregory.